When the weather and water temps start dropping, most trout anglers break out the tiny flies. Fishing midges deep in the ...

Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

CENTRAL MINNESOTA — It was midmorning on a sunny day last week when Mickey Johnson of Brainerd and I, fly rods in hand, walked single file down a narrow trail toward one of the few trout streams the ...

This story, “Giants of God’s River,” appeared in the April 1960 issue of Outdoor Life. I felt like a sardine in a can. My knees were drawn up almost to my chin, and I was hunched forward awkwardly.

Looking at the stretch of Michigan’s Jordan River I was wading, it was tough to believe it was teeming with wild brook trout. The shallow, ultraclear flow wasn’t very wide. It was fully lit by the ...

Benjamin Ferguson (right) holds up the state-record brook trout alongside his fishing buddy Shawn Widrick; Ferguson caught the trout during a three-day canoe trip in the Adirondacks. Benjamin Ferguson ...

Native Americans were catching and eating brook trout from our streams hundreds of years before the first Pilgrims arrived in 1620. The Indians introduced the brook trout to Pilgrims as food and also ...

Like Rodney Dangerfield, Montana brook trout don’t get any respect. In most of the state, the daily limit on brook trout is 20; the same limit that applies to catfish. I guess I can understand why ...

Recently on Facebook, there were pictures and an article about a giant brook trout that was caught in the Adirondacks on July 5. It was 22 inches long and beat the previous six-pound record by three ...

Anglers who braved sunny but cold conditions were rewarded with some large fish at Rhode Island ponds. The Department of Environmental Management planned to stock 13 ponds the last two weeks of ...